That was a good weekend. Too bad it couldn’t last for another 30 years or so.

On Saturday the kids and I did all the usual stuff. Piano, Karate, some chores, the usual. We watched a couple of Harry Potter movies. Jen came home from work and we played 45s for a while, which seems to be the big fun new game for all of us.

On Sunday we saw deer in the morning and again in the afternoon, The kids left with their Dad to go to a Star Trek convention where the lucky stiffs got to go to a meet and greet with William Shatner. The picture of the kids is priceless. Jen and I saw the new Harry Potter movie. Is it kid friendly? Not really. My step son would probably not sleep for a week if he saw it now. My step daughter might be able to handle it, but it’s a close call. Jen and her Dad are going to talk it over and we’ll see if we can get my step daughter out to see it. Oh, and Jen and I loved every second of it.

We had cook outs both days, we saw deer twice (did I mention that?), we had a lot of fun. I’m sad that this weekend had to end, although it brings us that much closer to our California vacation. I’m really starting to look forward to that!

i had put my camera away, but then they stepped out into the sun.

two Bambis? You bet!

Bambi came over for a BBQ today.

They lose those spots when the reach adulthood, right?

Got real camera pictures too.

I saw a flash of movement in the woods. It was a doe. I followed it’s shadowy outline through the thick branches and leaves for a few minutes, loving the first sighting of the summer, when I saw a flash of brown along the side of the yard.

It was a deer. Not just any deer, it was young. Really young. Was it an actual baby deer? I don’t know, do I look like an expert on deer? It was really small though. I would say at least that this is it’s first summer.

It got spooked as Jen and the kids piled up against the window to look at it, but we all saw it and it was awesome!

I love our house/yard/woods/deer!

Not sure what the issue is, but I downloaded a program called Flickr Backup to… you know… back up my Flickr account. Unfortunately it seem to be unable to handle sets with more than 500 images… which means my two ridiculously large iPhone sets are missing a large number of photos.

The iPhone 3G set is not, however, missing this picture of my beautiful wife, who is probably going to be seeing a 3D movie with me in about 11 hours or so.

Sometimes I just see something that unexpectedly slams home the fact that I am insane in love with this woman. This goofy photo did exactly that.

Messing with the iSupr8 app.

I had one of those spooky dreams where you can’t recognize the moment when you stop deaming and wake up.

Last night at about 1:00am I heard an explosion. A great big monster of a ka-boom. I could see that the street lights went out through my window shade and I heard what sounded like a flock of startled birds squawking as they flew away.

When I lived in Tewksbury there was a transformer near us that blew once in a while. It sounded like that.

Until I suddenly heard the first notes of “Help” by The Beatles.

Huh?

Our music-to-sleep by was still playing? But the power is off. Well, it probably just came back on and I didn’t notice, right? I looked at the alarm clock and it was on but not flashing. It should have been flashing, shouldn’t it?

Then I realized… Our bedroom does not face the street. How could I have seen the street lights go out if I couldn’t see the street lights.

Now that I think of it, I thought, if something outside exploded, why aren’t there two terrified kids running into the room? Why don’t I have a startled wife laying next to me instead of a not-startled wife sleeping next to me?

Maybe because what I thought happened didn’t happen?

My mind started coming up with alternative events? Was there a car accident outside? Did an animal attack our trash cans?

I got up and took a look around. All was well. I dreamed the whole thing.

Or did I?

Now I am going to check the news to make even more sure that I’m right.